In response to a story about Øbama's fall in popularity in the polls to 40%.
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The One’s biggest problem is his refusal to admit that he is ever wrong about anything.
He is a sort of super-
Hillary! in this respect. He
essentially came into office claiming vast powers to do things that
mortal men couldn’t (“the oceans begin to recede and the planet begins
to heal”) and when his policies didn’t deliver, instead of acknowledging
that those were pretty stupid promises to make to start with, he
“pivoted” to blaming a vast conspiracy against him, personally.
He tends to “ride” crises, in the sense that he “never lets one go to
waste” if he can somehow use it to take and hold more (extra-executive)
power. The drawback is that once he has such power, he uses it to enact
more of his dogmas, simply automatically assuming that they, and he,
are inescapably
RIGHT.
And when that doesn’t work, he “doubles down”, demanding more money,
more resources, and more power, to…do more of what caused the problem to
begin with.
The American people’s problem with The One isn’t his albedo, no
matter how much he’d like to blame it on that. Or his religion; we’re
used to narcissists in positions of power.
The problem is that he absolutely refuses to learn from experience.
And reacts to every failure of his own like a whiny schoolyard bully
blaming the little kid with the glasses. “Well, he made me beat him up!”
The main problem is, to him, we’re simultaneously the kid with the
glasses and The Source Of All Evil In The Universe. He wants to beat us
up just for existing, at the same time that he’s sure that left
unchecked by Super-Him, we will destroy the world.
He dislikes the world as it is almost as much as he dislikes us. To
be exact, he hates the “evil, materialistic West” and loves the
“mystical, enlightened East”. He wants to make the entire world like the
bazaar he wandered happily through as an eleven-year-old in Indonesia.
Not understanding what that sort of “de-evolution” would do to humanity
as a whole.
Then again, like James Hansen and John Holdren, he may understand, and either be in favor of it or just not care.
This is at the heart of the disapproval of this POTUS. The American people see him as hostile to them, and to civilization.
What is more disquieting is the number of Americans who still support
him. One can only assume that they share his contempt and animosity
toward the rest of us, and the rest of humanity.
by eon on August 6, 2014
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While emotionally satisfying, Obama’s numbers are of virtually no consequence, except as a token of a larger dissatisfaction.
Obama, as a person, is a mewling, whiny untalented talking head who
is a tool of others. His personal incompetence has had some effect but
the decisions and actions of this government are only fractionally his
own, and while his Teflon Blackness™ has allowed a much quicker advance
of the statists than would have been possible otherwise, he can in no
way be considered a
leader of the progressives.
We should be much less concerned over who sits in the Captain’s chair
and spend more worrytime over the half of federal government who appear
to have sold their soul to the statists, and the vast majority of the
leftwing bureaucracy that does the most to constrain our liberties.
Dolce Far Niente, August 6, 2014
